200 Famous Women

Creative Women by Profession and Last Name

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ARTISTS, PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, PHOTOGRAPHERS...

Abbott, Berenice (1898-1991) US photographer
Arbus, Diane (1923-1971) US photographer
Barry, Lynda (1956-____) US cartoonist, writer
Carr, Emily (1871-1945) Canadian artist, writer
Chanel, Coco (1883-1971) French fashion designer
Head, Edith (1898-1981) US costume designer
Hepworth, Dame Barbara (1903-1975) English sculptor
Kent, Corita (1918-1986) US graphic artist
Kollwitz, Kathe (1867-1945) German artist
Lin, Maya Ying (1959-____) US architect, sculptor
Moses, Grandma (1860-1961) US folk painter
Nevelson, Louise (1899-1988) US sculptor, painter
O'Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) US painter
Schiaparelli, Elsa (1890-1973) Italian-French designer
Signoret, Simone (1921-____) German actress
Vanderbilt, Gloria (1924-____) US designer, poet

BUSINESSWOMEN, ECONOMISTS, EXECUTIVES...

Arden, Elizabeth (1884-1966) US cosmetics executive
Ash, Mary Kay (1915-____) US businesswoman
Fields, Debbi (1956-____) US business executive
Fitz-Gibbon, Bernice (1895-1982) US advertising executive
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935) US economist, lecturer, author, feminist
Graham, Katharine (1917-____) US newspaper executive
Heath, Jinger () US business executive
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss (1943-____) US businesswoman
Lauder, Estée (1908?-____) U.S. cosmetics executive
Myers, Joyce A. () US Business executive
Nelson, Paula (1945-____) US economist
Popcorn, Faith (1947-____) US management consultant
Porter, Sylvia (1913-1991) US journalist, finance expert
RoAne, Susan () US management consultant, writer
Roddick, Anita (1942-____) English businesswoman, social reformer
Rubinstein, Helena (1870-1965) US cosmetician, executive, philanthropist
Ward, Barbara (1914-1981) English economist, journalist, educator
Webb, Beatrice Potter (1858-1943) US social economist

COMPOSERS, CONDUCTORS, BALLET, OPERA, ETIQUETTE...

Boulanger, Nadia (1887-1979) French conductor, educator
Caldwell, Sarah (1924-____) US opera conductor, producer, impresario
Callas, Maria (1923-1977) US opera singer
Dunham, Katherine (1910-) US dancer, choreographer, anthropologist
Fonteyn, Margot (1919-____) English dancer
Graham, Martha (1894-1994) US dancer, choreographer
Horne, Marilyn (1934-____) US opera singer
Jamison, Judith (1943-____) US modern dancer
Lehmann, Lotte (1888-1976) German opera singer
Melba, Nellie (1861-1931) Australian opera singer
Norman, Jessye (1945-____) US operatic and concert singer
Pavlova, Anna (1881-1931) Russian ballerina
Post, Emily (1872-1960) US etiquette authority
Price, Leontyne (1927-____) US opera singer
Sills, Beverly (1929-____) US opera singer
Vanderbilt, Amy (1908-1974) US etiquette authority

DRAMATISTS, PLAYWRIGHTS, POETS...

Ackerman, Diane (1948-____) US poet, writer, social worker
Allen, Paula Gunn (1939-____) US American Indian {Pueblo/Sioux) poet, writer
Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851) Scottish poet, dramatist
Barbauld, Anna Letitia (1743-1825) English poet, writer
Behn, Aphra (1640-1689) English playwright, poet
Bennett, Gwendolyn (1902-1981) US poet, artist
Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979) US poet
Bogan, Louise A. (1897-1970) US lyric poet, critic
Bolton, Sarah Knowles (1841-1916) US poet, editor, social reformer
Bradstreet, Anne (1612?-1672) US poet
Brittain, Vera () English writer, poet, pacifist
Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855) English novelist, poet
Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-____) US poet
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861) English poet
Clifton, Lucille (1936-____) US poet, educator
Coatsworth, Elizabeth (1893-1986) US poet, children's author
Cook, Eliza (1818-1889) English poet
Cowley, Hannah (1743-1809) English playwright
Delaney, Shelagh (1939-____) English playwright
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) US poet
Dove, Rita (1952-____) US poet, educator
Duffy, Maureen (1933-____) English poet, writer
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice (1875-1935) US poet, essayist
Erdrich, Louise (1954-____) US-American Indian Chippewa writer, poet
Evans, Mari (1923-____) US poet, educator, editor
Fauset, Jessie Redmon (1882-1961) US poet, novelist
Giovanni, Nikki (1943-____) US author, poet
Griffin, Susan () US poet, writer, educator
Hale, Sarah Josepha (1788-1879) US journalist, author, poet
Hansberry, Lorraine (1930-1965) US playwright
Harper, Frances Watkins (1825-1911) US poet
Hellman, Lillian (1905-1987) US dramatist
Henley, Beth (1952-____) US dramatist
Hurston, Zora Neale (1903-1960) US dramatist, author
Johnson, Georgia Douglas (1866-1967) US poet
Kumin, Maxine (1925-____) US poet, novelist, essayist
Landon, Letitia (1802-1838) English poet, novelist
Lazarus, Emma (1849-1887) US poet
Levertov, Denise (1923-____) English-USA poet
Lorde, Audre (1934-1992) US poet, feminist
Lowell, Amy (1874-1925) US poet, critic, lecturer
McMillan, Terry (1951-____) US novelist, editor
Meynell, Alice (1847-1922) English poet, essayist
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1882-1950) US author, poet
Miller, Alice Duer (1874-1942) US poet, author
Monroe, Harriet (1860-1936) US editor, poet
Moore, Marianne (1887-1972) US poet, editor
Norman, Marsha (1947-____) US dramatist
Norton, Caroline Sheridan (1808-1877) English poet, novelist
Proctor, Adelaide A. (1825-1864) English poet, activist
Rich, Adrienne (1929-____) US poet, educator
Richards, Beah (1926-____) US poet, playwright, actress
Richards, Mary Caroline () US poet, potter
Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894) English poet
Rukeyser, Muriel (1913-1980) US poet
Sachs, Nelly (1891-1970) German poet, dramatist
Sackville-West, Vita (1892-1962) English novelist, poet
Sanchez, Sonia (1934-____) US poet, playwright, educator
Sarton, May (1912-1995) US author, poet
Sexton, Anne (1928-1974) US poet
Shange, Ntozake (1948-____) US poet, playwright
Sitwell, Edith (1887-1964) English poet
Smith, Dodie (1896-1990) English dramatist
Smith, Stevie (1902-1971) English poet
Spencer, Anne (1882-1975) US poet, social worker
St. Teresa of Avila, (1515-1582) Spanish mystic, poet
Stuart, Janet Erskine () English poet
Swenson, May (1919-____) US poet
Taylor, Ann (and Jane)(1782-1866) English children's author, poet
Teasdale, Sara (1884-1933) US author, poet
Wakoski, Diane () US poet
Wasserstein, Wendy (1950-____) US playwright
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1850-1919) US writer, poet, journalist

ACTRESSES, DANCERS, SINGERS, MUSICIANS, COMEDIANS, DIRECTORS, PRODUCERS...

Ace, Jane Sherwood (1905-1974) US actress, comedienne
Adler, Polly (1900-1953) US madam
Aimee, Anouk (1932-____) French actress
Allen, Gracie (1906-1964) US comedienne
Alley, Kirstie (1955-____) US actress
Anderson, Marian (1897-1993) US singer
Andrews, Julie (1935-____) English actress, singer, author
Annis, Francesca (1944-____) English actress
Ashley, Elizabeth (1941-____) US actress
Astor, Mary (1906-1987) US actress
Bacall, Lauren (1924-____) US actress
Baez, Joan (1941-____) US folksinger, political activist
Bailey, Pearl (1918-1990) US singer, actress
Baker, Josephine (1906-1975) French dancer, singer, entertainer
Ball, Lucille (1911-1989) US comic actress
Bankhead, Tallulah (1903-1968) US actress
Bardot, Brigitte (1934-____) French actress
Barr, Roseanne (1952-____) US actress, comedian
Barrymore, Ethel (1879-1959) US actress
Baxter, Anne (1923-87) US actress
Belmont, Eleanor Robson (1879-1979) English-USA actor, writer, nurse
Bergen, Candice (1946-____) US actress, photojournalist
Bergman, Ingrid (1915-1982) Swedish actress
Bernhard, Sandra (1955-____) US actress, commedienne
Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923) French actress
Bisset, Jacqueline (1944-____) English actress
Black, Shirley Temple (1928-____) US actress, diplomat
Boosler, Elayne (1952-____) US comedian
Booth, Shirley (1907-____) US actress
Brice, Fanny (1891-1951) US singing comedienne
Brooks, Louise (1906-1985) US actress
Brophy, Brigid (1929-____) English-Irish writer, novelist, playwright
Burnett, Carol (1933-____) US actress, comedienne
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick (1865-1940) English actress
Carpenter, Karen (1950-1983) US singer
Carter, Betty (1929-1998) US jazz singer
Cattrall, Kim (1956-____) English actress
Chaplin, Geraldine (1944-____) US actress
Chase, Ilka (1905-1978) US actress, writer
Cher, (1946-____) US singer, actress
Childress, Alice (1920-1994) US playwright, actress, director
Colbert, Claudette (1903-1996) French actress
Collins, Joan (1933-____) English-US actress
Collins, Judy (1939-____) US folksinger, film maker
Comeaux, Amie (1976-1997) US country singer
Conn, Didi (1951-____) US actress
Crawford, Joan (1908-1977) US actress, dancer
Davis, Bette (1908-1989) US actress
Davis, Geena (1957-____) US actress
Day, Doris (1924-____) US singer, actress
DeMille, Agnes George (1905-____) US dancer, choreographer
Dee, Ruby (1923-____) US actress
Didion, Joan (1934-____) US screenwriter, author
Dietrich, Marlene (1901-1992) German-USA actress, singer
Diller, Phyllis (1917-____) US comedienne
Douglas, Helen Gahagan (1900-1980) US actress, opera singer, politician
Draper, Ruth (1884-1956) US actress
Dressler, Marie (1869-1934) Canadian-USA actress
Duncan, Isadora (1877-1927) US dancer
Duse, Eleonora (1858-1924) Italian actress
Etting, Ruth (1897-1978) US singer
Field, Sally (1946-____) US actress
Fisher, Carrie (1956-____) US actress, author
Fiske, Minnie Maddern (1865-1932) US actress
Fitzgerald, Ella (1917-1996) US jazz singer
Fonda, Jane (1937-____) US actress, political activist
Fontanne, Lynn (1887-1983) US actress
Franklin, Aretha (1942-____) US Rhythm and Blues singer
Gabor, Zsa Zsa (1919-____) Hungarian actress
Garbo, Greta (1905-1990) Swedish actress
Gardner, Ava (1922-1990) US actress
Garland, Judy (1922-1969) US actress, singer
Gingold, Hermione (1897-1987) English actress
Gish, Dorothy (1898-1968) US actress
Gish, Lillian (1893-1993) US entertainer
Goldberg, Whoopi (1949-____) US actress, comedienne
Gordon, Ruth (1896-1985) US actress
Grable, Betty (1916-1973) US actress
Graham, Virginia (1912-1998) US actress, TV personality
Harlow, Jean (1911-1937) US actress
Hawn, Goldie (1945-____) US actress, comedienne, producer
Hayes, Helen (1900-1993) US actress
Henner, Marilu (1952-____) US actress, health promotor, author
Hepburn, Katharine (1907-____) US actress
Holiday, Billie (1915-1959) US singer
Hopper, Hedda (1890-1966) US journalist, actress
Horne, Lena (1917-____) US singer, actress
Houston, Whitney (1963-____) US singer
Hunter, Alberta (1895-1988) US blues singer
Hurst, Fannie (1889-1968) US screenwriter, novelist, dramatist
Hutton, Betty (1921-____) US singer, dancer, actress
Ireland, Kathy (1963-____) US model
Jackson, Glenda (1936-____) US actress
Jackson, Mahalia (1911-1972) US gospel singer
Jones, Shirley (1934-____) US actress, singer
Joplin, Janis (1943-1970) US singer
Judd, Naomi (1946-____) US singer
Kerr, Deborah (1921-____) Scottish actress
Lee, Gypsy Rose (1914-1970) US entertainer
Lillie, Beatrice (1898-1989) English comedienne
Lloyd, Marie (1870-1922) English singer
Long, Shelley (1950-____) US actress
Loren, Sophia (1934-____) Italian actress
Lynn, Loretta (1935-____) US singer, songwriter
Mabley, Jackie "Moms" (1894-1975) US comedienne
MacLaine, Shirley (1934-____) US actress, dancer, writer, metaphysician
Madonna, (1958-____) US singer, actress
Main, Marjorie (1890-1975) US actress
Makeba, Miriam (1932-____) South African singer
McEntire, Reba (1954-____) US country singer
Merman, Ethel (1909-1984) US singer, actor
Midler, Bette (1945-____) US singer, actress
Minnelli, Liza (1946-____) US actress, singer, dancer
Mitchell, Joni (1943-____) Canadian singer, songwriter
Monroe, Marilyn (1926-1962) US actress
Moore, Mary Tyler (1936-____) US actress, humanitarian
Moreau, Jeanne (1928-____) French actress
Neal, Patricia (1926-____) US actress
Ono, Yoko (1933-____) US artist, musician
Paglia, Camille (1947-____) US actress, writer
Parent, Gail (1940- ____) US scenarist
Parton, Dolly (1946-____) US singer, songwriter, actress
Pearl, Minnie (1912-1996) US comedienne
Pfeiffer, Michelle (1958-____) US actress
Pickford, Mary (1894-1979) Canadian actress
Radner, Gilda (1946-1989) US actress, comedienne
Rainey, Ma (1886-1939) US Blues singer
Rashad, Phylicia (1948-____) US actress, Equal Rights activist
Reagon, Bernice Johnson (1942-____) US musician, museum director
Reed, Donna (1921-1986) US actress
Ritter, Thelma (1905-1969) US actress
Rivers, Joan (1937-____) US comedian, TV personality
Roberts, Julia (1967-____) US actress
Ronstadt, Linda (1946-____) US singer
Ross, Diana (1944-____) US singer, actress
Rudner, Rita (1956-____) US comedienne, essayist, actress
Russell, Rosalind (1911-1976) US actress, philanthropist
Schell, Maria (1926-____) Austrian actress
Scott, Hazel (1920-1981) Trinidad-USA pianist, singer, writer
Seymour, Jane (1951-____) English actress
Shore, Dinah (1917-1994) US singer, actress
Siddons, Sarah (1755-1831) English actress, sculptor
Simone, Nina (1933-____) US Jazz singer, pianist, composer, songwriter
Skinner, Cornelia Otis (1901-1979) US actress, author
Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) US blues singer, songwriter
Smith, Maggie (1934-____) US actress
Smith, Patti (1946-____) US rock singer, poet
Stanwyck, Barbara (1907-1990) US actress
Stone, Sharon (1958-____) US actress
Streep, Meryl (1949-____) US actress
Streisand, Barbra (1942-____) US actress, singer
Swanson, Gloria (1897-1983) US actor, producer, business executive
Swit, Loretta (1937-____) US actress
Taylor, Elizabeth (1932-____) English actress
Terry, Ellen (1847-1928) British actress
Thomas, Marlo (1938-____) US actress
Tomlin, Lily (1939-____) US actress, comedienne
Tucker, Sophie (1884-1966) US singer
Turner, Kathleen (1954-____) US actress
Turner, Lana (1920-1995) US actress
Turner, Tina (1938-____) US singer
Ullmann, Liv (1938-____) Norwegian actress, humanitarian
Vega, Suzanne (1959-____) US singer, songwriter
Vera-Ellen, (1926-1981) US actress
Wagner, Jane (1935-____) US humorist, writer, director
Welch, Raquel (1940-____) US actress, model
West, Mae (1892-1980) US actress
Winfrey, Oprah (1954-____) US TV personality, actress
Winger, Debra (1955-____) US actress
Winters, Shelley (1922-____) US actress
Woodward, Joanne (1930-____) US actress

PHYSICIANS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, PSYCHIATRIST, SURGEONS...

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett (1836-1917) English physician
Barton, Clara (1821-1912) US humanitarian
Blackwell, Elizabeth (1821-1910) US physician, author
Blackwell, Emily (1826-1910) US physician, author
Brothers, Joyce (1928-____) US psychologist, author
Calderone, Mary Steichen (1904-1998) US physician, author
Carter, Lillian (1898-1983) US nurse, first mother
Davis, Adelle (1904-1974) US nutritionist, author
Delany, Annie Elizabeth (1891-1995) US dentist
Deutsch, Helene (1884-1982) US psychoanalyst
Field, Joanna (1900-____) English psychologist
Fisher, M. F. K. (1908-1992) U.S. culinary expert, author
Hinkle, Beatrice (1874-1953) US psychiatrist
Horney, Karen (1885-1952) US psychoanalyst, writer
Kenny, Elizabeth (1886-1952) Australian nurse
Kubler-Ross, Elizabeth (1926-____) Swiss-USA psychiatrist
Ramey, Estelle (1917- ____) US physician, physiologist
Singer, June () US doctor
Suyin, Han (1917-____) Chinese writer, physician
Westheimer, Ruth (1928-____) German-born USA psychiatrist, author, lecturer

SCIENTISTS, INVENTORS, EXPLORERS, AVIATORS, ASTRONAUTS, ECOLOGISTS,

Benedict, Ruth (1887-1948) US anthropologist
Carson, Rachel (1907-1964) US biologist, writer
Curie, Marie (1867-1934) Polish-French chemist
Earhart, Amelia (1898-1937) US aviatrix
Eberhardt, Isabelle (1877-1904) Russian-born traveler
Markham, Beryl (1902-1986) English aviator
McClintock, Barbara (1902-____) US scientist
Mead, Margaret (1901-1978) US anthropologist, author
Mitchell, Maria (1818-1889) US astronomer, educator
Moodie, Susanna (1803-1885) English-born Canadian pioneer
Richards, Ellen Swallow (1842-1911) US chemist, ecologist
Tannen, Deborah (1951-____) US sociolinguist, writer
Winnemucca, Sarah (c.1842-1891) Indian scout, activist
Yalow, Rosalyn Sussman (1921-____) US medical physicist

MILITARY, NAVAL, ARMY, MARINE, AIR FORCE LEADERS...

Hopper, Grace Murray (1906-1992) U.S. military leader, mathematician, educator

NOVELISTS, SHORT-STORY, AND SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS...

Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888) US novelist
Allingham, Margery (1904-1966) English detective story writer
Ashford, Daisy (1881-1972) English novelist
Asquith, Margot (1864-1945) English author
Atwood, Margaret (1939-____) Canadian novelist, poet
Austen, Jane (1775-1817) English novelist
Bagnold, Enid (1889-1981) English novelist, playwright
Baldwin, Faith (1893-1978) US novelist
Bambara, Toni Cade (1939-1995) US writer
Barnes, Djuna (1892-1982) US novelist, poet, illustrator, dramatist
Barney, Natalie Clifford (1876-1972) US author
Baum, Vicki (1888-1960) Austrian-USA novelist
Bibesco, Elizabeth Asquith ()
Blume, Judy (1938-____) US novelist, writer
Bowen, Elizabeth (1899-1973) Irish author
Bradley, Marion Zimmer (1930- ____) US novelist
Brodie, Fawn M. (1915-1981) US author
Bronte, Anne (1820-1849) English novelist, poet
Bronte, Emily (1818-1848) English novelist
Brown, Rita Mae (1944-____) US writer, playwright
Buck, Pearl (1892-1973) US author
Caldwell, Taylor (1900-1985) English novelist
Carter, Angela (1940-1992) English novelist, short-story writer
Cartland, Barbara (1901-____) English novelist
Cather, Willa (1876-1947) US novelist, short-story writer
Child, Lydia M. (1802-1880) US author
Christie, Agatha (1890-1976) English author, dramatist
Colette, (1873-1954) French author
Compton-Burnett, Ivy (1892-1969) English novelist
Craik, Dinah Mulock (1826-1887) English novelist
Dillard, Annie (1945-____) US author
Dinesen, Isak (1885-1962) Danish short-story writer
Drabble, Margaret (1939-____) English novelist, critic
DuMaurier, Daphne (1907-1989) English novelist
Durant, Ariel (1898-1981) US author
Duras, Marguerite (1914-____) French novelist, playwright
Edgeworth, Maria (1767-1849) English children's author
Eliot, George (1819-1880) English novelist
Ephron, Nora (1941-____) US author, screenwriter
Ferber, Edna (1885-1968) US novelist
Field, Rachel (1894-1942) US children's author
Figes, Eva (1932-____) German-born English writer
Fitzgerald, Zelda (1900-1948) US writer, celebrity relative
Frame, Janet (1924-____) New Zealander novelist, short-story writer, poet
Gaskell, Elizabeth (1810-1865) English novelist, short-story writer
Gilman, Dorothy (1923-____) US mystery novelist
Ginzburg, Natalia (1916-1991) Italian author
Glasgow, Ellen (1874-1945) US author
Glyn, Elinor (1864-1943) English novelist, short-story writer
Godden, Rumer (1907-____) English novelist
Godwin, Gail (1937-____) US novelist, short-story writer, journalist
Gordimer, Nadine (1923-____) South African novelist
Guest, Judith (1936-____) US novelist
Halsey, Margaret (1910-____) US author
Hazzard, Shirley (1931-____) Australian novelist
Ingelow, Jean (1820-1897) English novelist
Jackson, Helen Hunt (1830-1885) US novelist, poet, essayist
Jackson, Shirley (1919-1965) US novelist
James, P. D. (1920-____) English mystery novelist
Janowitz, Tama (1957-_____) US novelist
Jewett, Sarah Orne (1848-1909) US author
Jones, Gayl (1949-____) US short story writer, novelist
Jong, Erica (1942-____) US author, poet
Kingsolver, Barbara (1955-____) US novelist
Kingston, Maxine Hong (1940-____) US author
Konigsburg, E. L. (1930-____) US children's author
Krantz, Judith (1928-____) US novelist
L'Engle, Madeleine (1918-____) US novelist
Larsen, Nella (1891-1964) US novelist
Le Guin, Ursula (1929-____) US science-fiction writer
Lee, Harper (1926-____) US novelist
Loos, Anita (1893-1981) US screenwriter, dramatist, author
Mansfield, Katherine (1888-1923) New Zealander author
McCarthy, Mary (1912-1989) US novelist, critic
McCullers, Carson (1917-1967) US novelist, short-story writer
McKillip, Patricia (1948-____) US science fiction writer
Metalious, Grace (1924-1964) US novelist
Mitchell, Margaret (1900-1949) US novelist
Mitchison, Naomi (1897-1999) Scottish novelist
Mitford, Nancy (1904-1973) English novelist
Montagu, Mary Wortley (1689-1762) English author
Morrison, Toni (1931-____) US novelist
Murdoch, Iris (1919-1999) Irish author
Naylor, Gloria (1950-____) US novelist, educator
Nin, Anais (1903-1977) US author
Norris, Kathleen (1880-1960) US novelist
O'Brien, Edna (1932-____) Irish novelist, pacifist
O'Connor, Flannery (1925-1964) US author
Oates, Joyce Carol (1938-____) US novelist, poet, educator
Olsen, Tillie (1912-____) US novelist
Orczy, Emmuska (1865-1947) Hungarian-born British novelist
Ouida, (1839-1908) English novelist, social critic
Ozick, Cynthia (1928-___) US novelist, short-story writer
Paterson, Katherine () US children's writer
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart () US novelist
Plath, Sylvia () US novelist, poet
Porter, Eleanor H. (1868-1920) US novelist
Porter, Katherine Anne (1894-1980) US novelist, short-story writer
Potter, Beatrix (1866-1943) English author
Rand, Ayn (1905-1982) US author
Renault, Mary (1905-1983) English African novelist
Rhys, Jean (1894-1979) English novelist
Rice, Anne (1941-____) US novelist
Richardson, Dorothy Miller (1873-1957) English novelist
Rinehart, Mary Roberts (1876-1958) US novelist, playwright
Ripley, Alexandra (1934-____) US novelist
Rossner, Judith (1935-____) US novelist
Rule, Jane (1931-____) US novelist, critic
Sagan, Francoise (1935-____) French novelist
Sand, George (1804-1876) French author
Sayers, Dorothy L. (1893-1957) English author
Schreiner, Olive (1855-1920) South African novelist
Seredy, Kate (1899-1975) Hungarian children's writer, illustrator
Sewell, Anna (1820-1878) English novelist
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851) English author
Sherwood, Mary Martha (1775-1851) English children's author
Smith, Betty (1896-1972) US novelist
Smith, Lillian (1897-1966) US novelist, educator
Spark, Muriel (1918-____) Scottish novelist, satirist
Spyri, Johanna (1827-1901) Swiss novelist
Stafford, Jean (1915-1979) US short-story writer, novelist
Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946) US author
Stewart, Mary (1916-____) English novelist
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) US author
Swetchine, Anne Sophie (1782-1857) Russian-French writer
Tan, Amy (1952-____) US novelist
Tremain, Rose (1942-____) English novelist, playwright
Tyler, Anne (1941-____) US novelist, short-story writer
Viorst, Judith (1931-____) US novelist, poet
Walker, Alice (1944-____) US author
Warner, Susan (1819-1885) US novelist
Webb, Mary (1881-1927) English novelist
Weldon, Fay (1931-____) English novelist
Wells, Carolyn (1869-1942) US author
Welty, Eudora (1909-____) US author
West, Jessamyn (1902-1984) US author
Wharton, Edith (1862-1937) US novelist, short-story writer
Yezierska, Anzia (1885-1970) US novelist
Yourcenar, Marguerite (1903-1987) Belgian-USA novelist, essayist
von Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie (1830-1916) Austrian novelist

POLITICAL LEADERS, RULERS, STATESWOMEN, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, DIPLOMATS...

Adams, Abigail (1744-1818) US first lady
Alliluyeva, Svetlana (1926-____) Russian-USA political celebrity
Antoinette, Marie (1755-1795) Austrian ruler
Aquino, Corazon (1933-____) Filipino political leader
Astor, Nancy (1879-1964) English stateswoman
Berry, Mary Frances (1938-____) US government official, author
Bush, Barbara (1925-____) US first lady
Carter, Rosalynn (1927-____) US First Lady
Catherine the Great, (1729-1796) Russian empress
Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame () Chinese sociologist
Chisholm, Shirley (1924-____) US politician, author
Christina of Sweden, (1626-1689) Swedish ruler
Churchill, Jennie Jerome (1854-1921) US socialite
Clinton, Hillary Rodham (1947-____) US first lady, author, lawyer
Devlin, Bernadette (1947-____) Irish politician
Dole, Elizabeth (1936-____) US government official, business executive
Elizabeth I, (1533-1603) English ruler
Elizabeth II, (1926-____) British ruler
Feinstein, Dianne (1933-____) US politician
Fenwick, Millicent (1910-1992) US diplomat, congresswoman
Ferraro, Geraldine (1935-____) US politician
Ford, Betty (1918-____) US First Lady, dancer, philanthropist
Gandhi, Indira (1917-1984) Indian political leader
Grasso, Ella T. (1919-1981) US politician
Griffiths, Martha Wright (1912-____) US politician
Hufstedler, Shirley (1925-____) US government official
Jackson, Rachel Donaldson (1767-1828) US first lady
Johnson, Lady Bird (1912-____) US first lady
Jordan, Barbara (1936-____) US lawyer, educator, politician
Kirkpatrick, Jeane (1926-____) US diplomat
Lenclos, Ninon de (1620-1705) French society figure, courtesan
Lincoln, Mary Todd (1818-1882) US first lady
Mankiller, Wilma Pearl (1945-____) US-American Indian Cherokee chief
Marcos, Imelda (1929-____) Filipino first lady
Meir, Golda (1898-1978) Israeli political leader
Mikulski, Barbara (1936-____) US politician
Moseley-Braun, Carol (1947-____) US politican, lawyer
Nixon, Pat (1912-1993) US first lady
Norton, Eleanor Holmes (1937-____) US government official
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy (1929-1994) US first lady
Peron, Eva (1919-1952) Argentine political leader
Priest, Ivy Baker (1905-1975) US government official
Princess Anne, (1950-____) British royalty
Queen Mother Elizabeth, (1900-____) British royalty
Queen Victoria, (1819-1901) British royalty
Reagan, Nancy (1921-____) US first lady
Richards, Ann (1933-____) US politician, governor
Robinson, Mary (1944-____) Irish political leader
Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962) US first lady, social reformer
Ruckelshaus, Jill (1937-____) US government official, lecturer
Schroeder, Patricia (1940-____) US political leader
Smith, Margaret Chase (1897- 1995) US politician
Summerskill, Edith Clara (1901-1980) English politician, physician, author
Thatcher, Margaret (1925-____) English political leader
Washington, Martha (1732-____) US First Lady
de Valois, Marguerite () French princess, scholar

REFORMERS, REVOLUTIONARIES, ABOLITIONISTS, CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS,

ACTIVISTS, ANARCHISTS...

Addams, Jane (1869-1935) US social worker, suffragist
Andrus, Ethel Percy (1884-1967) US social activist
Anthony, Susan B. (1820-1906) US social reformer, suffragist
Astell, Mary (1666?-1731) English feminist, writer
Austin, Mary (1868-1934) US writer, suffragist
Baker, Ella (1903-1986) US civil rights activist
Blackwell, Antoinette Brown (1825-1921) US abolitionist, feminist, clergy
Chapman, Maria Weston (1806-1885) US abolitionist, editor
Davis, Angela (1944-____) US political activist, revolutionary, author
Day, Dorothy (1897-1980) US editor, humanitarian, women's rights advocate
Edelman, Marian Wright (1939-____) US social reformer, lawyer, author
Faludi, Susan (1959-____) US writer, feminist
Farnham, Eliza Wood Burhans (1815-1864) US social reformer, lecturer
Friedan, Betty (1921-____) US feminist, activist, writer
Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850) US critic, social reformer, writer
Goldman, Emma (1869-1940) US anarchist
Greer, Germaine (1939-____) English reformer, author, educator
Grimke, Angelina (1805-1879) US abolitionist, women's rights advocate
Hale, Clara McBride (1905-1992) US social reformer
Hamer, Fannie Lou (1917-1977) US activist
Height, Dorothy (1912-____) US activist
Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910) US social reformer
Huerta, Dolores (1930-____) US Chicana activist, labor leader
Johnson, Sonia () US activist, religious leader
Jones, Mary Harris "Mother" (1860-1930) US labor organizer
Kempton, Sally (1943-____) US writer, feminist
Key, Ellen (1849-1926) Swedish writer, feminist
King, Coretta Scott (1927-____) US civil rights activist
Kuhn, Maggie (1905-1995) US activist, social worker
Lockwood, Belva (1830-1917) US social reformer, lawyer
Luce, Clare Boothe (1905-1987) US dramatist, author, politician, diplomat
Mott, Lucretia (1793-1880) US social reformer
Nation, Carry (1846-1911) US social reformer
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910) English nurse, reformer
Pankhurst, Emmeline (1858-1928) English suffragist
Parks, Rosa (1913-____) US civil rights leader
Roland, Jeanne-Marie (1754-1793) French revolutionary
Rose, Ernestine L. (1810-1892) US activist
Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre (1842-1924) US suffragist
Russell, Dora () English writer, activist
Sanger, Margaret (1883-1966) US nurse, social reformer
Scott-Maxwell, Florida () US writer, suffragist, psychologist
Smith, Hannah Whitall (1832-1911) US evangelist, reformer, suffragist, author
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815-1902) US social reformer, feminist
Steinem, Gloria (1934-____) US feminist, journalist, lecturer
Stone, Lucy (1818-1893) US suffragist, feminist
Terrell, Mary Church (1863-1954) US social reformer
Truth, Sojourner (1797?-1883) US abolitionist, reformer
Tubman, Harriet (c.1820-1913) US abolitionist, emancipator
Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelly (1759-1797) English writer, women's rights activist
Woodhull, Victoria Claffin (1838-1927) US reformer

PHILOSOPHERS, RELIGIOUS LEADERS, MORALISTS, THEOLOGIANS, MISSIONARIES, PHILANTHROPISTS...

Bakker, Tammy Faye (1942-____) US evangelist
Bethune, Mary McLeod (1875-1955) US educator, writer
Daly, Mary (1928-____) US theologian
Eddy, Mary Baker (1821-1910) US religious leader, writer
Fry, Elizabeth (1780-1845) English social reformer, philanthropist
Heyward, Carter () US Episcopal priest
Hutchinson, Anne (1591-1643) US religious leader
Langer, Suzanne K. (1895-1985) US philosopher
Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876) English social reformer, writer
Mcpherson, Aimee Semple (1890-1944) US religious leader, evangelist
Pankhurst, Sylvia (1882-1960) English suffragist
Rankin, Jeannette (1880-1973) US suffragist, politician
Shinn, Florence Scovel () US illustrator, metaphysicist
Teresa, Mother (1910-1997) Albanian nun, missionary
Waddles, Charleszetta (1912-____) US nun, writer
Weil, Simone (1909-1943) French philosopher
Williamson, Marianne (1952-____) US lecturer, author

HISTORIANS, LAWYERS, JURISTS, EDUCATORS AND OTHER SCHOLARS...

Abzug, Bella (1920-____) US lawyer, politician
Adler, Freda (1934-____) US educator, criminal justice specialist
Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975) German-USA political scientist
Ashton-Warner, Sylvia (1908-1984) New Zealander educator, writer, novelist, poet
Beard, Mary Ritter (1876-1958) US historian, writer
Beecher, Catharine Esther (1800-1878) US educator, author
Bird, Rose Elizabeth (1936-____) US justice
Burroughs, Nannie (1883-1961) US educator
Cole, Johnnetta Betsch (1936-____) US educator, anthropologist, college president
Cooper, Anna Julia (1859-1964) US educator, feminist, writer
Davis, Elizabeth Gould (1910-1974) US librarian, writer
DeLuzy, Dorothée (1747-1830) French actress
Deffand, Marie Anne du (1697-1780) French intellectual
Delany, Sarah Louise (1889-199?) US educator
Grimke, Charlotte Forten (1837-1914) US educator, diarist
Hamilton, Edith (1867-1963) US writer, educator
Harrison, Jane () English classical scholar, writer, archeologist
Hillesum, Etty (1914-1943) Dutch lawyer, writer
Le Sueur, Meridel () US writer, historian
LeTendre, Mary Jean (1948-____) US educator, government official
Lyon, Mary (1797-1849) US educator
Marshall, Paule (1929-____) US writer, educator
McAuliffe, Christa (1948-1986) US teacher
Montagu, Elizabeth (1720-1800) English intellectual, conversationalist
Montessori, Maria (1870-1952) Italian educator, reformer
O'Connor, Sandra Day (1930-____) US supreme court justice
Paul, Alice (1885-1977) US lawyer
Perkins, Frances (1880-1965) US educator, government official
Plato, Ann (1820?-___?) US educator
Putnam, Emily James (1865-1944) US educator
Ravitch, Diane () US educator
Rosen, Marjorie (1942- ____) US film historian
Spacks, Patricia Meyer (1929-____) US literature scholar, writer
Stael, Anne Louise Germaine de (1766-1817) French-Swiss woman of letters, novelist
Sullivan, Anne (1866-1936) US educator
Thomas, Martha Carey (1857-1935) US educator, feminist
Tuchman, Barbara (1912-1989) US historian
Walker, Margaret (1915-____) US writer, educator
Weisstein, Naomi () US psychology professor, activist
Willard, Emma Hart (1787-1870) US educator
de Maintenon, Francoise d'Aubigne (1635-1719) French writer, consort
hooks, bell (1952?-____) US educator, feminist theorist, poet

NON-FICTION WRITERS, PUBLISHERS, EDITORS, JOURNALISTS, CRITICS, BROADCAST JOURNALISTS...

Alexander, Shana (1925-____) US news commentator
Anderson, Margaret (1886-1973) US editor
Angelou, Maya (1928-____) US actress, author
Anzaldua, Gloria Evangelina (1942-____) US Tejana-Chicana poet
Baldwin, Christina () US writer
Baldwin, Monica (1896-1975) English writer
Ballantyne, Sheila () US writer
Barr, Amelia (1831-1919) US author, journalist
Barrett, Rona (1936-____) US journalist
Battelle, Phyllis (1922-____) US journalist
Beauvoir, Simone de (1908-1986) French writer
Bengis, Ingrid () US writer
Blavatsky, Helena Petrova (1831-1891) Russian author, translator, theosophist
Blessington, Lady Marguerite (1789-1849) English socialite, writer
Bombeck, Erma (1927-1996) US journalist, author, humorist
Boom, Corrie Ten (1892-1983) Dutch evangelist
Bourke-White, Margaret (1904-1971) US photojournalist
Bowen, Catherine Drinker (1897-1973) US writer
Brookner, Anita (1928-____) English art historian, writer
Brown, Helen Gurley (1922-____) US editor, author
Bunch, Charlotte (1944-____) US feminist theorist, lecturer, writer
Burney, Fanny (1752-1840) English novelist, letter writer
Burton, Isabel (1831-1896) English traveler, author
Caine, Lynn (1927-1987) US writer, lecturer
Calisher, Hortense (1911-____) US writer
Carpenter, Liz (1920-____) US writer, feminist
Child, Julia (1912-____) US chef, author, TV personality
Chopin, Kate (1851-1904) US author
Collange, Christiane () French writer
Conran, Shirley (1932-____) English journalist, designer
Crist, Judith (1922-____) US film critic
Davis, Rebecca Harding (1831-1910) US author, journalist, critic
Decter, Midge (1927-____) US journalist, writer
Deming, Barbara (1917-____) US author, pacifist, political activist
Dix, Dorothy (1870-1951) US journalist, writer
Dowling, Colette (1938-____) US writer
Drew, Elizabeth (1935-____) US journalist, commentator
Duncan, Sara Jeannette (1861-1922) US writer
Ehrenreich, Barbara (1941-____) US writer
Ehrlich, Gretel () US writer
Ellerbee, Linda (1944-____) US broadcast journalist
Fallaci, Oriana (1930-____) Italian writer, journalist
Fishel, Elizabeth () US writer
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (1879-1958) US author, essayist
Flanner, Janet (1892-1978) US journalist
Frank, Anne (1929-1945) German-Dutch diarist
French, Marilyn (1929-____) US writer
Fripp, Patricia () English-USA business speaker, author
Gellhorn, Martha (1908-____) US journalist, author
George, Phyllis (1949-____) US sportscaster
Gerould, Katherine F. (1879-1944) US writer
Geyer, Georgie Anne (1935-____) US columnist, journalist
Gilligan, Carol () US writer, researcher
Goodman, Ellen (1941-____) US journalist
Graham, Sheilah (1904-1988) US columnist
Hamilton, Gail (1833-1896) US writer
Hardwick, Elizabeth (1916-____) US author, critic
Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti () US writer, publicist
Haskell, Molly () US writer, film critic
Heilbrun, Carolyn (1926-____) US writer, educator
Heimel, Cynthia () US writer, humorist
Holmes, Marjorie () US writer
Howard, Jane (1935-1996) US journalist, writer
Hulme, Kathryn (1900-1981) US writer
Huxtable, Ada Louise (1921-____) US critic, editor
Jacobs, Harriet Ann (1813-1897) US diarist, writer
Jameson, Anna (1794-1860) Irish author, art critic
Janeway, Elizabeth (1913-____) US writer
Johnson, Pamela Hansford (1912-1981) English critic, author
Johnston, Jill (1929-____) US journalist, critic
Jordan, June (1936-____) US writer, poet, journalist
Kael, Pauline (1919-____) US critic
Keller, Helen (1880-1968) US author, lecturer
Kennedy, Rose (1890-1995) US author, political relative
Kerr, Jean (1923-____) US humorist, author, playwright
Kincaid, Jamaica (1949-____) Antigua-US journalist
King, Florence (1936-____) US writer
Koller, Alice () US writer
Konner, Joan () US journalist, college administrator
LaFollette, Suzanne (1895?-1983) US writer, editor
Landers, Ann (1918-____) US advice columnist
Lawrenson, Helen (1904-1982) US editor
LeShan, Eda (1922-____) US writer
Lebowitz, Fran (1950-____) US journalist
Lerner, Harriet () US therapist, writer
Lessing, Doris (1919-____) English author, playwright
Lilly, Doris (1926-1991) US journalist, writer
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow (1906-____) US writer
Little, Mary Wilson () US writer
Livermore, Mary Ashton (1820-1905) US journalist, social reformer, lecturer
Livingstone, Belle (1875-1957) US writer, adventurer
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt (1884-1980) US author, socialite, celebrity relative
Luxemburg, Rosa (1871-1919) Polish German socialist, writer
Mannes, Marya (1904-1990) US journalist, writer
Martin, Judith (1938-____) US author, journalist
Maxwell, Elsa (1883-1963) US writer, TV hostess, columnist
McGinley, Phyllis (1905-1978) US author, poet
McLaughlin, Mignon () US journalist, author
Millett, Kate (1934-____) US writer, sculptor, educator
Mitford, Jessica (1917-1996) English-USA journalist
More, Hannah (1745-1833) English writer
Morgan, Robin (1941-____) US editor, feminist, writer
Morris, Jan (1926-____) English writer, journalist
Necker, Suzanne Curchod (1739-1794) French writer
Noonan, Peggy (1950-____) US writer
Oliphant, Margaret (1828-1897) Scottish writer
Paddleford, Clementine (1900-1967) US journalist, editor
Paley, Grace (1922-____) US writer
Parker, Dorothy (1893-1967) US author, poet, journalist, humorist
Peter, Irene () US writer
Peterson, Virgilia (1904-1966) US writer, TV personality
Piercy, Marge (1936-____) US writer
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin () US writer, editor, columnist
Quindlen, Anna (1953-____) US journalist, novelist
Quinn, Jane Bryant (1939-____) US journalist
Repplier, Agnes (1858-1950) US essayist
Rowland, Helen () English-USA writer
Savant, Marilyn vos (1946-____) US columnist, writer
Sawyer, Diane (1945-____) US broadcast journalist
Seton, Anya (1916- ____) US writer
Sevigne, Marie de (1626-1696) French diarist
Sheehy, Gail (1937-____) US writer, journalist, editor
Sinetar, Marsha () US writer
Smiley, Jane (1949-____) US writer
Smith, Barbara (1846-____) US editor, writer
Smith, Liz (1923-____) US columnist
Sontag, Susan (1933-____) US author, critic
St. Johns, Adela Rogers (1894-1988) US journalist
Stark, Freya () French-English travel writer
Taylor, Susan L. (1946-____) US journalist
Thompson, Dorothy (1894-1961) US journalist, writer
Trilling, Diane (1905-1996) US author, critic
Ueland, Brenda (1891-1986) US writer
Uhnak, Dorothy (1933-____) US novelist, writer
Van Buren, Abigail (1918-____) US journalist
Van Horne, Harriet (1920-____) US columnist
Vreeland, Diana (1903-1989) US fashion editor
Walters, Barbara (1931-____) US broadcast journalist
West, Rebecca (1892-1983) Irish author, journalist
Whitehorn, Katharine (1928-____) English writer, essayist
Wilder, Laura Ingalls (1867-1957) US author
Wolf, Naomi (1963-____) US writer
Woodman, Marion (1928-____) Canadian analyst, writer
Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941) English author, critic
de Girardin, Delphine (1804-1855) French novelist, poet

SPORTS PERSONALITIES, COACHES...

Alcott, Amy Strum (1956-____) US golfer
Berg, Patty (1918-____) US golfer
Blair, Bonnie (1964-____) US speedskater
Evert Lloyd, Chris (1954-____) US tennis player
Gibson, Althea (1927-____) US tennis player
Joyner, Florence Griffith (1959-1998) US track athlete
King, Billie Jean (1943-____) US tennis player, activist
Lopez, Nancy (1957-____) US golfer
Navratilova, Martina (1956-____) US tennis player
Rudolph, Wilma (1940-1994) US track athlete
Zaharias, Babe Didrikson (1914-1956) US sportswoman, golfer



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